PRE-DAWN PAROLE RAID NETS 17 SEX OFFENDERS, FOUR OTHERS.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer PALMDALE - Seventeen sex offenders - most of them convicted child molesters - were arrested Thursday during a pre-dawn sweep by more than 100 law enforcement officials checking for parole and probation violations. The FBI, state Department of Justice, California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. , Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County PoliceThe Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. joined forces with the state parole and county probation departments to check on whether 50 registered sex offenders were violating terms of their probation or parole. ``This was a concentrated check for compliance of registered sex offenders on parole or probation,'' said sheriff's Lt. Ron Shreves. ``A successful operation would have been one where everyone was in compliance. ``It's disappointing that we find this many people not in compliance but since they are, we're taking action.'' The sweep by 108 law-enforcement officials encompassed the area from Acton to Lake Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . In addition to the 17 registered sex offenders arrested on suspicion of violating parole or probation, four people on parole for other offenses also were taken into custody, officials said. The sweep was part of the state's zero-tolerance policy Noun 1. zero-tolerance policy - any policy that allows no exception; "a zero-tolerance policy toward pedophile priests" policy - a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government; "they debated the policy or impolicy of the proposed legislation" to head off recidivism recidivism: see criminology. among the thousands of registered sex offenders. Several of the parolees arrested in the sweep had pornographic magazines or sexual devices in their possession in violation of their parole terms. Another was found with a simulated firearm, and a man and his girlfriend, both parolees, were found with a firearm and to be under the influence of a narcotic narcotic, any of a number of substances that have a depressant effect on the nervous system. The chief narcotic drugs are opium, its constituents morphine and codeine, and the morphine derivative heroin. See also drug addiction and drug abuse. . Local parole and probation units regularly nake compliance checks of about five parolees at a time, but Thursday's was the first search on such a large scale. ``We wanted to utilize the additional resources while they were available to conduct this massive parole search,'' said Lisa Abma, a supervisor for the Antelope Valley Parole Unit. Sex offenders are required to register annually with their local law enforcement agency Noun 1. law enforcement agency - an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation - a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice . Individual restrictions may also be put in place by either the parole or probation departments to prohibit specific activities. ``When you're a sex registrant, you're a sex registrant for life,'' said Shreves. There are nearly 600 registered sex offenders in the Antelope Valley, although only one is considered a high risk, officials said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Sex offenders picked up Thursday morning are loaded onto a prison van outside a state parole office in Palmdale. Greg Botonis/Staff Photographer |
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